Jennifer Parrucci

Senior Taxonomist @The New York Times

New York, NY, US

Taxonomy-Create, manage and maintain taxonomy that powers customer-facing and internal products-Review tagging of terms on articles by newsroom staff (~250 people) to ensure accuracy and standards-Rewrite and tweak categorization rules to improve performance-Issue daily reports on tagging performance to newsroom and other stakeholders-Train newsroom in proper tagging procedures-Create training documents and presentations-Write queries to leverage metadata for products -Train new taxonomy staff-Report bugs and request technical work that will lead to process improvements-Give presentations on the work of the taxonomy team within the company and to outside organizations-Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to find the best ways to leverage the taxonomy to meet their specific product goalsArchives-Research relevant historical events that can be used to highlight NYT archival content through TimesMachine links and issue a weekly newsletter of those events to the newsroom-Manage the @NYTArchives Twitter account-Train newsroom staff in research methods and best practices for using TimesMachine-Assist with the use of TimesMachine links and archival material for articles, interactives, newsletters and special projects-Look for partnerships that could leverage the archives-Editor \"The Cats of the Times\"-Monitor and manage OCR scan feedback from customers-Work with search team to create an editing tool for content that is not in our current CMS

Pratt Institute

Advanced Certificate in Archives

Pratt Institute

MLS, Library Science

New York University

BA, English Literature & Creative Writing

New York University

A.A, Liberal Arts